Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Bruce Dethlefsen has worked delivering telegrams, at a flour mill, as a night watchman in a cave, a surgical orderly, a bass player and singer in a rock group, an emergency ward technician, an English teacher, a school administrator, and public library director. As Wisconsin's Poet Laureate for the past two years, Bruce has traveled his state promoting poetry through various events and initiatives. He lives in Westfield. Learn more about him at http://brucedethlefsen.com/.